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16 while the kids are away, the parents will… install shelving.

Our boys are with Nana and Papa tonight so naturally we are going out to dinner renting a chick-flick visiting the museum of modern art cutting trim and installing built-in shelves in our living room. A-like-so: The idea and bones came from the IKEA (where else?) Billy bookshelves, which we bought several of this past weekend [...]

16 decorate my second story for me, will you?

I thought that standing infront of a window would be enough light, but apparently I was wrong. So for the first 2 minutes I’m in the dark and you can barely see my face while talking to the camera (sorry about that). No worries though, the rest of the clip has good lighting. {For all [...]

20 a fly-by of oboy’s new room

OBoy has something he would like to show you. A couple of somethings, actually. They are airplanes! O, and I do mean airplanes! with an exclamation mark. OBoy has never in his life said the word airplane! without the implied exclamation mark. He points at the sky at even the faintest of distant overhead rumbles and declares “airplane!”. If [...]

20 obla dee obla da, life goes on

Hey, wouldn’t it be absolutely nuts to push a human out of your body and then return home the next day to a house amidst a full second story remodel? O wait, that’s me. I did that. Crazy thing about second children is that you have a better idea of what’s coming. When we brought [...]